It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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